all hallow's eve

Happy Halloween!  Enjoy this animation short from Nocturnaloner who says it was completed in time for Christmas.



Also see some of the world's creepiest attractions, including a Museum of Death in Hollywood.

take it back

Enjoy this costume website:  Take Back Halloween! A Costume Guide for Women with Imagination.  No dearth of  ideas there browsing a fabulous resource guide featuring Glamour Grrls, Goddesses and Legends, Notable Women, and Queens.  And, they tell you how to put it all together.

why

Leon Redbone's Why.

 

arising

Yoko Ono invites women everywhere to participate in an exhibition.

peace can be realized even without order

Teamlab installation shown in the video below at the Singapore Art Museum.



Seemingly endless holographic figures play music and dance, influenced by the sounds of the figures close to them.  From Teamlab's description:

[...] There is no lead figure that oversees or can influence all the other dancers, and there is also no center or order enforced on the crowd.  External events can cause disorder, but then in time gradually peace will be restored.

When a person enters the installation and a figure senses the viewer, the figure responds to that person and stops playing music.  The figure passes on this information to other figures close by.  After a short period of time the figure will start playing music and dance again, but this disturbance will have disrupted the harmony.  If, however, the viewer stays still or leaves, the dancers will begin to form back into one harmonious group and the feeling of peace will return.

More video of the work:



Here, too:



Teamlab describes the ancient Japanese Awa Dance Festival whereby various groups of dancers and musicians arbitrarily roam town playing and dancing as any given group so chooses.  As one group encounters another, each begins to "gradually and unconsciously" match the music and tempo of the other, "not due to any set of rules," and whereby, "an extraordinary peaceful feeling prevails,"  Teamlab stating:

Today, in the Internet age, the speed at which people can connect with other people has accelerated.  As a result people throughout the world have become increasingly connected, and the influence of connections to other people has become more important.  What we experience in this new age can be considered similar to the experience of the dance festival, and perhaps in these unordered connections there is a way to find peace.

And more - the concept of ultra subjective space.

self-portrait

Via Elizabeth Avedon's blog, Midtown East Manhattan at the Howard Green Gallery now showing an exhibition of photographer Vivian Maier's self-portraits.  See portfolios of her work here.

nyc map links

NYU Professor Steve Hutkin's NYC map links.  Via The Map Room.

dimensions of dialogue

Another selection from surrealist Jan Svakmajer -- his 1982 animation, Dimensions of Dialogue.

red shoes

and some hardline advice.

float on

Dedicated to the brilliant lights on twitter .. a Seattle area classic too, this Modest Mouse video is featured in one of the music exhibits at the Emerald City's exciting, very hands-on Museum of History and Industry.